Behold, John McCain is going to change things- he doesn’t say how, he doesn’t say he voted with Bush 100% on the economy and he tries to claim to be an agent of change. If things are so bad and he agreed with how we got here, then why vote for more of the same? Or has he just decided to be different – and how will that be? He is selling oxygen and no one is buying it.

7. correctnotright spews: Behold, John McCain is going to change things- he doesn’t say how, he doesn’t say he voted with Bush 100% on the economy

Only a small point…

Bush doesn’t vote.

If voting with bush is so bad, why aren’t you replacing all the democrats that voted WITH bush on the war, the surge, fisa, etc.

What about factcheck outing obama-

Obama strained to portray himself as willing to break ranks with fellow Democrats. His prime example was his vote for a bill that was supported by 18 Democrats and opposed by 26. Congressional Quarterly rates him as voting with his party 97 percent of the time since becoming a U.S. senator.

I would expect one of the most liberal senators to vote with his party most of the time, why does obama lie about it? Why is he ashamed of it?

This is one of my fav lies exposed by factcheck.

And at times Obama has run a higher percentage of attack ads than McCain.

How rovian, saying one thing and doing another. Thankfully obama had the liberal media to cover for him.

Marvistan Neither Obama nor any other Democrat gains by distancing himself or herself from the Democratic Party. We are the majority party, the party in line with average American values. You, and your party, have a lot of running to do.

@9 Only a small point: Do I have to again explain how the government works?

Bush supports an economic bill, McCain also supports it – therefore McCain is voting WITH Bush. That is shorthand, obvious and anyone who looks at the statement understands what it means. Actually, Bush does have a vote – it is called a veto. He can decide to veto or not to veto. If McCain votes to support the veto – he is voting with Bush again. McCain supported every economic proposal by bush and has failed to indicate a single way he would vote differently. McCain’s chief economic advisor (Phil Gramm) wrote the bill that deregulated the banks. McCain’s 2005 bill would not have fixed the problem even if it passed the republican controlled Senate in 2005. McCain calls himself the biggest dereglator – until lately, when he suddenly becomes a regulator. Is he running on his record and experience or on his erratic campaign?

Poor marvin: Barely out of the margin of error? Most of the polls are predicting a landslide win in the electoral college – Bush may go down to McGovern territory – a useful analogy given the state of his poor vetting of a VP.

Let’s see: Republican run a “moderate” and can’t even make the race competitive. He loses the right wing support until he picks a corrupt, serial liar, far-right wing evangelist who is obviously unqualified as a ruunning mate. Even then, he sinks further in the polls and thinking republicans are jumping ship in droves. There will be so few rats left on the sinking HMS republican that they can start their own far right rat party.

If we could get back to the subject, IMO this is the best add McCain has run all Campain, he seems honest to the point. A large part of Obamas advantage is he has stayed on messege about his hope / change vission for the future. McCain’s adds have not showed what vission he has. You can run attack adds all day and all night but you need to show you have an alternitive. I think this is a GOOD ad from an anylitical stand point.

The purpose of the minimum wage is to convince people to strive for something better than a minimum wage job. If you’re working at minimum wage level, get some motivation to get some skills and get a better paying job. Take responsibility for your life.

Yes, he’s significantly ahead in every major poll, but election day is still almost three weeks away.

Even after the election, we can expect to see Republicans bringing lawsuits over anything and everything they imagine might have happened, and some things that they know did not happen.

Right wing talk radio will be abuzz with conspiracy theories about the MSM and Acorn and voter fraud. The fact that there will be no evidence of significant problems with the election certainly won’t stop them.

I expect about a seven to eight percent difference in the national vote count, which these days is pretty much a landslide, as about 40% of the population will vote for anyone with an “R” after their name, and about the same percentage will vote for anyone with a “D”.

We’ll probably get a much bigger gap in the electoral vote, which our side will point to as a “mandate”, and your side will say that we obviously couldn’t really “close the deal”, because there was “only” a seven or eight percent difference in the popular vote, which was “obviously” because of Acorn and fraud (despite no evidence of widespread fraud).

And President Obama and the next (even more strongly Democratic) Congress will take office and work to clean up the mess you folks have left us with.

25. John Barelli spews: Marvin? Since nobody else has bothered to answer your question, I will. “Why can’t obama close the deal?” Yes, he’s significantly ahead in every major poll

I posted a link you replied to. Up 4%? Do you call that significant?

Even after the election, we can expect to see Republicans bringing lawsuits over anything and everything they imagine might have happened, and some things that they know did not happen.

In other words, acting like democrats.

Right wing talk radio will be abuzz with conspiracy theories about the MSM and Acorn and voter fraud.

Acorn will probably be the swiftboaters of obama. His connection to them is going to hurt him. The fact he lied about his connection at the debate proves he knows how damaging it is. Sorry you missed it.

The fact that there will be no evidence of significant problems with the election certainly won’t stop them.

There’s already reported problems with college students voting early.

We’ll probably get a much bigger gap in the electoral vote, which our side will point to as a “mandate”

But didn’t the democrats say that bush didn’t have a mandate even after bush beat kerry both in electoral and popular vote?

because of Acorn and fraud (despite no evidence of widespread fraud).

Every state has found “problems” with acorn. Unless you believe mickey mouse is a real person. Well, there’s a roger rabbit on here along with goatsex steve so animals voting democrat voting animals probably don’t seem too outrageous.

And President Obama and the next (even more strongly Democratic) Congress will take office and work to clean up the mess you folks have left us with.

Good. It will be about time william “cold cash” jefferson be brought up on charges. Oops, he’s a democrat, ain’t going to happen.

The democrat controlled congress has a lower approval rating than bush. And you think more power is going to make them ethical?

Maybe you could have murtha explain why racists keep voting him into office. What is it about him that racists like?

Yes, Marvin, the Rasmussen poll has Senator Obama ahead by only four points. Of all the national polls, that’s almost the narrowest.

Research 2000 has him eleven points ahead, CBS/NYT has him fourteen points ahead, but Investors Business Daily has him only three points ahead.

Gallup and Pew Research seem to be splitting the difference, as does, oddly enough, Fox News.

One thing none of them are indicating is that Senator McCain is winning. But if it makes you feel better for the next couple of weeks to believe that the “Bradley effect” is going to sweep Senator McCain into the White House, I certainly don’t want to bust your bubble.

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